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...Aviv Israel's deeply divided Labor Party agreed to join Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's governing coalition. It will hold eight of 30 cabinet posts. The party chose its elder statesman, Shimon Peres, as Foreign Minister and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former general who headed the Israeli military government in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1980s, as Defense Minister. Salah Tarif was named a Minister Without Portfolio; he is the first Arab ever appointed to an Israeli cabinet...
Protesters handed out pink flyers with Summers' picture, asking "Did you elect this man? Who did?" and announcing today's rally...
President-elect George W. Bush may be relatively new to Washington, but when he came to town Monday with a $1.3 trillion across-the-board tax cut on his mind, he knew just the man whose ring he had to kiss first: Alan Greenspan, pontiff of the U.S. economy...
...crushed-toes billing. At the post-meeting photo-op, Bush started spreading the love, calling the Fed chairman a "distinguished, thoughtful economist." And when reporters started sniffing for discord, Bush replied, "One of the things I'm certain that I should not do as President-elect is to try and put words in the mouth of Alan Greenspan...
...When voters go to the polls on March 11 and 18 to elect municipal officials in 36,000 cities, towns, villages and hamlets, local issues and personalities will largely sway their choices. But once the ballots are totted up, the results will be viewed as a key barometer of next year's legislative and presidential elections. And though the local contests have no direct bearing on national politics, their outcomes will inevitably affect the tug-of-war between Gaullist President Jacques Chirac and Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, likely rivals in the May 2002 presidential race...